0.50 Cal explodes in dude's face - yeeeouch

Stick a thumb in it! Dude is a monster of a man... but in all seriousness, I'm glad Scott survived that whole ordeal and seems like he's recovering at an incredible rate.

So many ignorant comments...

oh well...back to my salad.

To all those who think its the gun design, Mark Serbu is a well known and extremely reputable gunsmith, and the design specs are well within, and above, the normal operating pressures of a .50BMG round. The actual gun design is not the culprit here, although I wouldn't be surprised if some parameters are changed in further production of this model because of this incident.

The main culprit I suspect is as a previous poster pointed out: the use of SLAP rounds with a muzzle brake. It is explicitly stated to not use a muzzle device with those in all sources I've been able to find; in fact it even says to not use them in rifles not explicitly designed for their use. The microscopic obstructions which can build up from the plastic sabots are enough to jam a round during firing and create quite obscenely large back pressures even with normal powder loads. If, on top of that, the round itself was indeed hot then you have a recipe for disaster.

That’s not what happened.

He used old, reloaded rounds of unknown origin and had questioned if it was tampered.


Moral of the story, don’t use old rounds of unknown origin.

It’s a shitty gun design from serbo but ultimately the deciding factor was that this was a LOADED ROUND, likely loaded with TNT. Needed to reach 85k pounds of pressure to sheer that cap (according to manufacturer):



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Badass. Bet he didn’t get the vaxx; and only because he’s got a good Christian upbringing, he didn’t tell the pro-vaxx legions to suckit.

My only question: does he own part of the 50c manufacturing company now; and or have they showered him bobbles and bullion?

NO NO NO..........Stupid comments..Let me tell You people why....I reload more ammo than most people see in a life time.

What happens with old military ammo is that most is loaded with ball powder and if left alone it will function as normal for many many years. BUT if transported and vibrated or shaken over time the powder turns to dust and is no longer in pellet or ball form at that point the powder turns super fast burning and pressure builds faster than the projectile can move out the barrel and boom.

That is all.

Yeah, saw that the other day... dude is very lucky he's not dead. Jagged piece of metal sliced right through his jugular.

Was not gun's fault, he loaded it with an old round that was loaded "extra hot"... lots of extra powder I guess.

Glad he's okay, but that was scary stuff!

this is not how you do it

Could be. The moral of the story is dont use any ammo when you dont have any idea of its origin and history.

For all he knows it had C4 in it.

if you get a squib round in an AR and you are firing rapidly it will blow up in your face too, but not with this violence obviously.

I saw a bolt action blow the bolt back into a guys face on the rifle range once and that was just an obstructed barrel on a .22.

He got the rounds from a source that "said" they were mil spec / issue. guess not.

At the range I shoot at, 50 cals are prohibited. They turn the rocks in the background to glass and that is dangerous.

Good diagnosis. Miserable engineering on that cap. A thousand ways to do it better and safer. If you live--you learn.

There is no timing to check on a bolt gun.

And no headspacing to check unless there was a manufacturing defect.

That is for machine guns, when you are changing out a barrel.

holy $hit that was crazy!

one helluva way to get your 72 virgins

Didn't know you could covert black powder to high pressure rounds.

Up next... a .50 zip gun.

If you're shooting a hard target like iron you have to put an angle on it so it doesn't come straight back. Those bullets will create a cavity and bounce out of it.

it certainly does. WTF

Go to his page, he just got vaxed when this happened. Stay away from the vaccine.

that is not a shit gun....it was shit ammo...actually it wasn't shit ammo it was just old ammo. When ammo is loaded it is either flake, rod, or ball. In this form the burn rate is determined by the manufacturer so a constant pressure when discharged can be maintained. As the ammo is transported/moved/shook this gunpowder is broken apart into smaller and smaller pieces kind of like going through a tumbler. This affects the burn rate which in turn affects the pressure build up. The faster it burns the more pressure produced. Which is what happened in this case. The guy said he didn't know how old the ammo was. He over pressurized his weapon by using very old ammo and not checking the state of the poweder.

Yeah, it was definately the vax. Exploding gun is just the cover story.

Or, shooting old ammo that you have no idea how HOT the load is, with a shit gun.

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idiots like this deserve what they get..

sad we couldnt see more bloodshed on this rtard

yes, go back to tossing that salad like a good liddle bitch ;)

I follow scott, have watched him since his channel was new.

Have watched several videos of people commenting on this incident.

While I, personally, feel the gun design is a bit of an issue, the real problem and source of this is what many have stated.

Questionable ammo.

Old, surplus, third hand, unknown origin, etc.

That's the real issue and not just in this instance.

Unless it's factory loaded from a reputable, new manufacturer, it's questionable.

I've been given old reloads that have changed hands several times....I've never fired any of them(I unload them, dump the primer and use the case).

Scott's not an idiot, but I don't imagine he'll ever shoot anything from now on that isn't from a new/factory supply. That's just good advice for anyone.

Also, the main issue aside.

Thank god for his Dad. I know in his video he was thanking god, but you can't downplay the fact that his dad was on point, fast on his feet, didn't panic and handled that situation better than probably 99 percent of people would have.

I'd say he should buy his dad something awesome for fathers day, but he already got what he wanted(another day with his son).